Confused as always regarding what backup method to use
I know this question has probably been asked a gillion times but I'm going to ask again.
On my Windows 7 machine I run PerfectDisk disk disk optimization software to defragment my hard drive. I've been only doing peroidic full backups on my system because I understood that running a defragger made it impossible to create differential or incremental backups. Is this really true. I would like to run more frequement backups then full backups as I run them manually I often forget.
Can someone provide me with some advice on how to effectively backup my system?


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I am seeing the same problem now that I have switched to ATIH 2014 and Win 8.1. I did a full backup of my data drive yesterday (128MB) and did an incremental this morning that was 70MB. I did run PerfectDisk overnight to defrag the drive. What puzzles me is that I did not see this problem with ATIH 2013/Win 7 or earlier. PerfectDisk has been set up to automatically defrag all partitions every Sunday morning. I run incremental backups every two weeks and start a new full backup set every quarter. I would definitely have noticed if my incremental were 50% of the full backups which is what I am seeing now.
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